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And it's something I'm used to, but this time it was really driving me to put something in my stomach immediately - I couldn't wait 15 minutes for my rice to cook and it all became very clear that this shouldn't be an issue I was dealing with to the point where I forgot it wasn't normal.Īnd on whether or not this turned her off from working for a tech company at all, Talia Jane says 'No, as long as the pay is fair and how employee needs are handled are realistic to the area's cost of living, I could be scooping duck s- out of the pond outside of Facebook and I wouldn't mind.' The last straw was when I woke up yesterday two hours after going to sleep because my stomach hurt from hunger. They were well aware that I was struggling despite doing what I could with what I had. Talia Jane tells Business Insider: I brought up the wages in every quarterly meeting I had with my managers. Meanwhile, Talia Jane's Twitter handle has become a trending topic in San Francisco - apparently, her plight has struck a nerve in San Francisco, where income inequality is a very real and present issue. Since posting about her termination on Twitter, Talia Jane has seen an outpouring of support, including donations to her personal PayPal account.

' you know what the average retention rate of your lowest employees (like myself) are? Because I haven’t been here very long, but it seems like every week the faces change.'.

Because 80 percent of my income goes to paying my rent. But we’re not allowed to take any of that home because it’s for at-work eating.

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'Bread is a luxury to me, even though you’ve got a whole fridge full of it on the 8th floor.Because I can’t afford to buy groceries.' Not because I’m lazy, but because I got this ten pound bag of rice before I moved here and my meals at home (including the one I’m having as I write this) consist, by and large, of that. 'I haven’t bought groceries since I started this job.She says her manager suggested, ' with full concern and sympathy for my situation,' that she go through the FastTrack lane and incur a $35 ticket that she could pay back later. Talia Jane's post also includes an account of how she once found herself stranded outside of San Francisco without the cash to pay a toll to get to work. Minimum wage in San Francisco is $12.25 an hour. ' I got paid yesterday ($733.24, bi-weekly) but I have to save as much of that as possible to pay my rent ($1245) for my apartment that’s 40 miles away from work because it was the cheapest place I could find that had access to the train, which costs me $5.65 one way to get to work. Earlier in February, Yelp's chief financial officer stepped down, even as the company's stock continues a downward trend after posting disappointing quarterly results. It bought Eat24 in early 2015 for $124 million. Yelp is a publicly traded company with a $1.38 billion market cap. But of course, other factors outside of the post may also have been at play and led to the decision.

She says there was no warning, just a disconnected email account and, later, a call from HR to discuss severance, indicating that her public story may have led to her termination. Talia Jane's lengthy Medium post paints a grim picture of San Francisco-based Yelp, the Yelp Eat24 food-ordering subsidiary at which she officially worked, and of being a low-paid worker in the extremely expensive San Francisco Bay Area.Ībout two hours after posting her essay, Talia Jane took to her Twitter account to announce that she had been fired from Yelp. ('Talia Jane' isn't her full name, but she asked not to be identified.)

' Another guy who got hired, and ultimately let go, was undoubtedly homeless.'

One of them started a GoFundMe because she couldn’t pay her rent,' Talia Jane wrote. They’re taking side jobs, they’re living at home. ' Every single one of my coworkers is struggling. Late Friday afternoon, Yelp customer-service agent Talia Jane published a Medium blog post called ' Dear Jeremy' - an open letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman claiming that some of his employees just can't make ends meet. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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